Also, the currently selected one is also the Python 3 interpreter (/usr/bin/python3) as it has the highest priority and the mode is auto. A virtual environment is an environment (think of it as a special folder) that is used to. Using the commands conda activate myenv and conda install python3.8 you first tell conda to activate the virtual environment named myenv and then install Python 3.8 in it. The Python 3 interpreter (/usr/bin/python3) is the Best one as it has the highest priority. What you observed is correct and is exactly how conda is supposed to work. As the default mode is auto, the python alternatives selected the Python 3 interpreter alternative automatically as it has higher priority than Python 2 interpreter alternative.Īs you can see, the mode ( Status) is auto. This was because I wanted to set Python 3 interpreter as the default alternative for the python alternatives. In the earlier section, you’ve seen I’ve set the priority for Python 2 interpreter (/usr/bin/python2) alternative 20 and for Python 3 interpreter (/usr/bin/python3) alternative 40. The default mode for any alternatives is auto. In manual mode, you select the default command/executable/alternative for the alternatives manually.

In auto mode, the alternatives selects the command/executable/alternative with the highest available priority by default. As you can see, the python alternatives has 2 alternative commands /usr/bin/python2 (priority 20) and /usr/bin/python3 (priority 40).Įvery alternatives in the update-alternatives database has 2 modes: auto and manual.

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